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Installing Vsphere Components: © 2015 Vmware Inc. All Rights Reserved
Installing Vsphere Components: © 2015 Vmware Inc. All Rights Reserved
Module 12
12-5
© 2015 VMware Inc. All rights reserved.
Learner Objectives
By the end of this lesson, you should be able to meet the following
objectives:
• Describe how to install ESXi interactively
• Describe other methods of ESXi installation
• Identify the basic requirements for a boot-from-SAN configuration
Disk storage:
• A SCSI adapter, Fibre Channel adapter, converged network adapter, iSCSI
adapter, or internal RAID controller
• A SCSI disk, Fibre Channel logical unit number (LUN), iSCSI disk, or RAID
LUN with unpartitioned space: SATA, SCSI, or Serial Attached SCSI
Required for The vSphere Web Client can use either the host
Host name None
static IP settings name or the IP address to access the ESXi host.
Must be at least 5 GB if you install the components
Install location Required None
on a single disk.
Keyboard
Required U.S. English
layout
VLAN ID Optional None VLAN ID range: from 0 through 4094.
IP address Optional DHCP
Configure a static IP address or use DHCP to
Calculated based on IP configure the network.
Subnet mask Optional
address
Based on IP address and IP address, subnet mask, gateway, and DNS
Gateway Optional network settings can be changed after installation.
subnet mask
Based on IP address and Secondary DNS server can also be defined
Primary DNS Optional
subnet mask
Boot LUN
12-13
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Learner Objectives
By the end of this lesson, you should be able to meet the following
objectives:
• Choose between a distributed configuration and an embedded configuration,
based on your requirements
• Choose between a Windows-based installation and an appliance, based on
your requirements
• Identify the basic requirements for a vCenter Server installation
• vCenter Server Appliance and Windows-based vCenter Server have the same
functionality. Both can be used to manage large environments.
• Equipped with the vCenter Server Appliance console for troubleshooting and
configuration.
• Supports vSphere Web Client.
• Supports connections by either IPv4 or IPv6 addresses.
• Obtain and assign a static IP address and a host name to the vCenter Server
system:
– The name should be resolvable by DNS.
– If you plan to use IPv6, the name should be resolvable in IPv6 by DNS.
Embedded
Deployment
Distributed
Deployment
Parameter Description